This year, Memorial Day came on the earliest calendar date possible and Labor day will fall on the latest, giving us the longest unofficial summer possible: 106 days. I have three important messages to kick off this summer, and they are all good ones!
- Our Friends of the Library Book and Plant Sale raised over $1,000
Thanks to our Friends, our sorting volunteers, our plant volunteers, and the strong backs of Boy Scout Troop 134, our Book and Plant sale pushed our building accessibility funds up to $301,899.40. It takes a lot of money these days to do anything–especially in construction and even more especially in public construction, but we’re steadily getting closer to having adequate resources to tackle this problem.
- Updated Merch
The Friends of the Library merch store has been updated with our most recent logo art. You can put the Library (or Friends of the Library) logo on pretty much anything, and the new ones look very nice thanks to the efforts of Lisa Soffey and Katherine Anderson.
- Research and Reference is back
In March 2025, The President tried to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services through executive order. One of the many ramifications was that the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners’ budget for research and reference databases disappeared and we had to turn them off. We’re slowly getting the mess cleaned up, though, and they are now back on! The link is back on the library services dropdown, or you can bookmark it in your browser here. Kudos to whoever figured this out before I announced it–we had 6 full text article retrievals last week! There will be even more resources there starting July 1, including language learning tools yet to be determined.
Thanks for Reading,
Justin Snook